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I'm not aware of any GUI tools that you can use to manage this. You could always install perl or Python, or if you're really hooked on shell, MSYS/Cygwin. I would recommend you give batch files a try though, it would be the cleanest solution, despite its shortcomings.

No thanks. My primary access to these files is via Windows Explorer so I would like a solution that integrates with that. Adding another shell just makes me need to type more. ;-) Looks like I'm going to need to do some batch scripting for use with "Send To..."
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Chris NavaJun 3 '09 at 14:28

There is a VirtualBox Manager GUI, both for Linux and for Windows version. I use it all the time on my Debian (just running 'virtualbox' opens up the GUI interface). You can see it on screenshots available on main VirtualBox site: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots

In that interface you can find a .vdi manager which will let you mount/umount, create new disk images, etc. Besides, those disk images are just plain files in ~/.VirtualBox/ directory, which you can simply copy using your standard system tools.

There's no option to "clone" a .vdi in the virtualbox provided GUI. (Which is ironic because it's the most frequent thing I do to those files.) Copying the files results in conflicts when you try to import them.
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Chris NavaJun 3 '09 at 14:18